MetaFilter posts tagged with class and america

Oh, Daddy and Mommy keep their boat down by the house on Martha's. More Gin?

leotrotsky — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:16:21 -0800

The Atlantic takes a look at the American Class System: a look at Paul Fussell's Class 25 years later. Of particular interest is the movement of Class 'X' from outside the system to the core of the status-obsessed center. Not that I'd know anything about it, of course, I'm too busy riding my fixie around Portland twittering for my ecopreneur gig.

Mandingo Party

jason's_planet — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:22:02 -0800

[NSFW] “[T]onight's orgy is fairly typical. . . . Within an hour or so, the guests—23 white couples and 3 black couples—have arrived, all of them here specifically to have sex with single black men often a decade or two their junior. There are 12 such men in the house tonight. They call themselves Mandingos. And this is a Mandingo party.”

Becoming the best within society's web.

daksya — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 23:02:15 -0800

Class in American society, a survey by the Economist.

New Federal Budget Proposal

nofundy — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:22:36 -0800

“Class warfare turns out to be alive,” Center director Robert Greenstein commented. “It is a centerpiece of the Nussle budget, with deep budget cuts that could harshly affect the poor, the vulnerable, and many middle-class Americans, alongside lavish tax cuts for the nation’s richest individuals. With this budget, we would be marching down the path toward a new Gilded Age.”

“The Nussle budget serves one very useful purpose.” Greenstein added. “It shows that these large tax cuts aren’t free, and that at bottom, the issue is one of national priorities. This ought to trigger a national debate. Are tax cuts averaging $90,000 a year for millionaires so high a priority that we should cut health care programs, increase the ranks of the uninsured, reduce the cost or limit the availability of student loans, and increase hardship among the disabled, poor children, and others to free up room for massive tax cuts?”

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Why is this rain yellow? or Hey, GWBush, self-appointed one of God, WWJD?